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A Photo That Speaks 1001 Words
Hold your nose, close your eyes, but do what you gotta do, in November, our destiny demands a vote for Joe Biden.
The man being hugged in the photo is the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The man hugging him is a 100-year-old veteran of D-Day, one of the thousands of men who assaulted the beaches under the wilting machine fire of the German MG-42. This hero and guardian of our democracy has a message for anyone who plans to vote for Vladimir Putin’s surrogate, Donald Trump.
“Mr. Zelensky, you are my hero,” the man said, his voice trembling with a mix of respect and gratitude, before grabbing the Ukrainian president’s hand and kissing it. An honorable man himself, Zelensky immediately dropped to his knees, embarrassed that such an elderly and esteemed warrior like this D-Day veteran should kiss his hand. A human being not lost somewhere like Putin and Trump in their own cowardly and small versions of themselves as untouchable, immortal heroes, President Zelensky was clearly overcome by the emotional support from this American hero.
